WENDELL – Wendell residents want to keep their post office just as it is.

According to a story from 22 News, more than 100 residents showed up at a meeting with the United States Postal Service Tuesday night, voicing their disapproval for a plan to cut hours.

The USPS preliminary list of offices that could receive hour reductions says the Wendell post office should be open only six hours each day. The USPS had around 13,000 offices nationwide on its preliminary list for hour reductions.

In June, the Wendell Selectboard released a statement asking that hours not be cut. The post office is a center for the rural town and encourages spending at other local businesses, the statement said, and mail is still an important means of communication in this rural community.

The board also argued that the post office is a regional hub for other Franklin County areas, serving towns without post offices or where hours have already been reduced.

The USPS will hold town meetings in Elmwood, Wheelwright, New Braintree, Westport Point, Chartley and Monponsett later this month regarding hour changes to those post offices.

The reduced-hour strategy is being implemented during the course of two years, and started in 2012. The strategy is meant to prevent closure of more rural post offices, which was part of a previous plan.

According to 21st Century Postal Worker, more than 9,000 locations have had retail hour changes so far. Hour change proposals were made to 49 Massachusetts post offices in 2012.

The complete plan for hour reduction was released in May 2012. See the map below for post offices on the original list, along with their proposed reduced hours, which the USPS said was subject to changes.